Lunch-box

Alok Chaudhry is one of the 2300 members of the Union of Tiffinbox Suppliers who form a network of relay teams that collect 100 000 lunch-boxes in mid-morning from Bombay’s suburbs and delivers them to offices in the city centre by lunchtime. […] Rajnish, second in the chain, collects his lunch-boxes from them at the first meeting point at 10.20.

Ishii also shared chikuwa (fish sausage) and boiled egg from his bentō lunch-box with the monkeys (he told me that the monkeys even eat tsukemono pickles and umeboshi [pickled plums]).

Her lunch-box had been packed with roast chicken drumsticks and sliced mango.

But today, I found one of the other children crying at lunchtime, because her lunch-box had been raided and nearly everything was missing.